Pocket match-safe



(No Model.)

H. C. STOLLE. POGKET MATCH SAFE.

No. 439,701. Patented Nov. I4, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN c. sToLLE, or DAVENPORT, IOWA.

POCKET MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,701, dated November4, 1890. Application filed February '7, 1890. Serial Nol 339,618. (Nomodel.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LIIERMANN C. STOLLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Pocket Match-Safe, of which the following is aspecitication.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket match-safes in which theheads of the matches rest upon the lower end of the safe and theopposite ends protrude slightly above the upper end of the safe,wherebythe matches may be Wholly inclosed within the safe when the hinged coveris shut; and the objects of my improvement are, rst, to ignite the matchas it is withdrawn from the safe, and, second, to afford facilities forlling the safe with matches without igniting them. I attain theseobjects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inWhich- Figure 1 is a side View of my pocket matchsafe, the cover beingraised, showing the nonignitible ends of the matches therein. Fig. 2 isa view of a vertical section of the same, taken on the line X X ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of the interior V-shaped spring andhorizontal roughened bar, and Fig. 4 is a view of a transverse verticalsection of the safe with the V-shaped spring and horizontal roughenedbar removed.

Similar letters and figures refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

A is a rectangular hollow case, and B its cover, hinged at C to the band10, surrounding the upper edge of such case. An inverted V-shaped spring1l is placed within the interior of such case and upon the bottom of thesame, the legs of which spring extend nearly to the top or opening ofsuch case, and at the upper end of such legs are attached horizontalroughened bars 12. The faces of such bars inclining toward the sides ofthe hollow case are roughened. The interior sides of the case, near itstop or opening, are also roughened, as at 13. The band 10 upon eitherside centrally has a projection 14 near its lower edge, so as to leavean interior hollow space, as at 15. On each side of the case, centrallyand just beneath the band, is a perforation 16 through such case, andeach horizontal roughened bar 12 has a registering perforation 17.through it. A flat spring 18 is attached at its lower end to the lowerexterior end of each side of the case, the upper end of each of suchsprings entering one of the hollow spaces 15 beneath the band 10. At theupper end of each of said springs is attached on the inner side ahorizontal pin 19, which pin registers with the apertures 16 through thecase and 17 through the roughened horizontal bar 12. The aperturethrough such horizontal bar, however, is of less diameter than throughsaid case, and near the inner end of each pin the diameter of the pin isdecreased to permit it to readily enter such aperture, as at 20, and atthe point where the diameter of the pin is increased to readily enterthe aperture in the case is a shoulder 21.

The operator opens the lid or cover of the match -safe and by pressingagainst the springs 18 on the exterior of the safe forces the pins 19within the interior of the case and the shoulder of each pin comes incontact with one of the roughened horizontal bars 12, and theleg of theV-shaped spring to which it is attached andforces such bars andthespring-legs inwardly to the center of the case, so that sufficientspace is left to place a row of matches 22 between each interiorsidewall of the case and the roughened surface of one of the horizontalbars, the heads of such matches being placed downward or on the bottomof the interior of the case. After the case has thus been filled, theoperator releases the exterior springs 18 from pressure, and theV-shaped spring then forces the roughened surface of the horizontal barsagainst the upper ends of each row of matches andsuch matches againstthe roughened surface 13 of the interior of the case. When the operatordesires to use a match, he opens the-lid or cover of the safe and pullsout one of the matches 22, and as the head of such match is pulledbetween the roughened surfaces of the sides of the case and horizontalbar the pressure of the V-shaped spring causes sufficient friction toignite the match. n

I do not broadly claim a roughened surface against which the head of amatch is to move under pressure to ignite it when pulled out of apackage or safe; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, iu a pocket match-safe,

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spring, the horizontal roughened bars Lttaehed to each leg of suchspring, the spring attached to each exterior side Wall of the safe, thehorizontal pins, one passing through each side Wall of the safe, anexterior end of the pin-attached to an exterior springmd an interior endof the pin in Contact With a horizontzrl bar, substantially asdescribed.

HERMANN C. STOLLE. Witnesses:

W. J. BIRCHARD, W. D. PEARNE.

